James donovan



(No Modek) J. DONOVAN.

GAR BRAKE.

Patented Dec. 19,1893.

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UNITED STATES .PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES DONOVAN,OF THREE RIVERS, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO ROBERTS,

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GAR-BRAKE.

$PECIFIOATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 511,198, dated December 19, 1893. Application filed July 8, 1893. Serialil'o. 479.914- (llo model.)

To all whom it may concern: 7 of the parts, the tension of the spring M Be it known that I, JAMES DONOVAN, a citiholds the wedge in its initial or upper posizen of the United States, residing at Three tion, shown in Fig. 1, in which position the Rivers, in the county of St. Joseph and State shoes are drawn back from the wheels by 5 of Michigan, have invented certain new and the engagement of the inclined bar of the nsefullmprovernents in Brakes, of which the bracket in the guide grooves H. When the following is a specification, reference being operator presses down upon the step the foot had therein to the accompanying drawings. bar and wedge are lowered and as the wedge The invention consists in the peculiar conlowers its inclined faces bear against the into struction of the brake shoes and of the operclined faces E of the bracket and cause the ating device therefor, and further in the pebrake shoes to turn about their pivots C and culiar construction and arrangement of the be forcibly pressed upon the faces of the car 6 various parts. wheels, thereby effectually braking the same. In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side eleva- As soon as the operator releases his foot from :5 tion of my improved brake as applied to a the foot bar the spring M returns the parts hand car. Fig. 2 is a detached perspective to their normal position.

View of the actuating wedge and foot bar. What I claim as my invention is Fig. 3 is a plan View of the brake, the stepof 1. In a hand car, the combination of the susthe foot bar being removed. pended brake shoes, brackets secured thereto 20 A is the frame of the hand car. having oppositely inclined upper faces,'a foot B are the brake shoes. bar for operating the shoes and a wedge on C are bolts from which the brake shoes are the bar adapted to bear against the inclined pivotally suspended from the sides of the faces of the brackets, substantially as decar. The brake shoes are oppositelyarranged scribed.

25 to brake theinner faces of both wheels in one 2. In a hand car brake, the combination of side of the car simultaneously as is usual in the suspended brake shoes, the bracket se- Such constructions. cured thereto, having oppositely inclined up- 8o D are brackets having the upper inclined per faces, a Wedge between the brackets enfaces E, the faces on the two brackets being gaging therewith,guide bearings in the wedge 30 oppositely inclined to form between them a with which the inclined bars of the bracket bearing opposite substantially the middle engage, a bar for actuating the wedge and a portion of the actuating part of the shoe. spring for retracting the same, substantially F is a wedge. as described.

G are flanges at each side thereof having 3. In a hand car brake, the combination of 3 5 guide grooves H in which the inclined bar of the suspended brake shoes, the brackets sethe brackets engage. cured thereto having oppositely inclined up- I is a foot bar preferably rectangular in per faces, a wedge adapted to engage upon cross section and having the offset J at its said faces and having guide grooves engaglower end, at the outer end of which is formed ing inclined bars of the brackets, a rectangu- 4o the wedge. This foot bar slidiugly engages larfoot bar carrying the wedge at the lower in bearings formed in a bracket K secu red to end, a bracket having corresponding rectanthe side of the frame of the car between the gular bearings for the foot bar, a step at the 5 wheels. upper end of the foot bar and a spring sleeved L is a step formed at the upper end of the about the foot bar, the parts combined and 5 bar extending above the platform in convenoperating, substantially as and for the purient proximity to the platform so that the oppose described.

orator may stop upon it to operate the brakes. In testimony whereof I affix my signature in M is a coiled spring sleeved about the foot presence of two witnesses. bar bearing with its lower end against the T e 50 bracket and at its upper end against akey or JAMES DO} flange N on the foot bar. Witnesses:

The parts being thus constructed their 0p- J. E. BUNK,

oration is as follows: In the normal position GEO. KELLER. 

